Subject: Re: Serial ports on SPARCclassic?
To: William O Ferry <WOFerry+@CMU.EDU>
From: Matthew Smithshaw <M@ML-Associates.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/12/1998 07:36:48
At 20:59 11/02/98 -0500, William O Ferry wrote:
>    I'm really unfamiliar with Sun's "A/B" serial deals.  I would like
>to hook up the serial end of a HP DeskJet 550C to my SPARCclassic.  But
>I don't have the A/B splitter cable.  Do I need to make one, or is one
>set of pins in the correct place already?  Would that be ttya or ttyb
>(or am I looking in the wrong place for the device...  =)  I tried a
>straight through serial cable and a gender-changer (the SPARC's serial
>port is the opposite gender of what I'd expect).

For serial resources check out Stokely Consulting's Home Page (SP?)
I think it is www.stokely.com/stokely
Failing that check out www.ml-associates.co.uk -> Other Links -> Support Links
-> Stokely
This will give you the Sun Serial cable specs.

>    Once (if) I get this working, what's necessary to get lpd to talk to
>the printer at 9600,8,N,1?  I set up what I thought looked okay, but lpd
>just collects the printouts in the spool, doesn't log any errors, but
>never prints either.  I'm not worrying about filters right now, I just
>want to be able to print a file I've made using gs's cdj550 device.

Not sure for this though

Reagrds


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